The Hitter Edition of the Stash List is back for the 2026 season.
This Stash List highlights the 10 best-hitting prospects likely to make an impact during the 2026 season.
Prospects are often thought of as only holding value in dynasty formats. However, redraft leagues, especially those that are keeper leagues, can benefit from finding the right hitter to stash at the right time on the waiver wire. Several have a 2026 ETA, and getting ahead of the curve on rostering these prospects is a key part of roster management. So let’s break down the Top 10 prospects to start off the 2026 season.
Ground Rules
The Stash List is for your redraft leagues and does not consider impact beyond 2026.
Only current minor league players who are expected to make an impact this season are included.
Upside, proximity, health, and opportunity are all weighed for each player.
The focus is on 12-team leagues with standard categories.
Rankings will be updated weekly.
Stats will be updated weekly for all players through Saturday’s games.
The Stash List
Graduates/Call Ups
The 2026 minor league season is still very young, so no names have graduated off the list, nor have any top prospects on previous lists seen their name called up to the majors.
As it has been over the previous weeks, the names are being reshuffled in terms of upside, health, and how likely they could be reaching the majors, or they’re being highlighted since they weren’t included in previous lists.
Top 10 Hitting Prospects to Stash
1. Max Clark, OF – Detroit Tigers
2026 MiLB numbers
Max Clark has remained one of the most consistently hot bats in Triple-A this year. While his batting average did dip below .400 this week, he’s kept his walk rate well above his strikeout rate with 10 walks on the year and just six strikeouts.
The opportunity to get the call to the Majors is yet to come for Clark, though, as the Tigers decided to call up infield prospect Hao-Yu Lee for the injured Zach McKinstry, who is out with a left hip inflammation. With Parker Meadows being transferred to the 60-day IL, there could be a chance for Clark to get his call-up in the near future, especially if Wenceel Pérez struggles over the next few weeks.
Clark is performing well enough that fantasy owners shouldn’t sweat keeping him stashed on their roster for the coming weeks. If he keeps up the pace he is having at the plate in the first four weeks of the season, then he will be on the Tigers’ active roster by Memorial Day weekend.
2. Charlie Condon, 1B/OF – Colorado Rockies
2026 MiLB numbers
It had been a quieter week for Charlie Condon until his hot performance on Friday night, when he went 3-for-5 with three RBI, a run scored, and a stolen base. Condon is heating up at the right time, as TJ Rumfield’s hot start to the 2026 season is starting to cool off, as he now has a .250/.316/.382 slash line in 20 games.
However, Condon will need a 40-man spot cleared to call up Condon in the near future. The good thing is, Condon is proving he can hold his own at Triple-A within the small sample size of three weeks, but the Rockies have no need to rush him up as is.
If he has a week where there’s more power in the swing, with three or four home runs, then the Rockies will have to find room for their cornerstone prospect, who can hopefully begin to help turn their franchise in a better direction.
3. Leo De Vries, SS – Oakland Athletics
2026 MiLB numbers
One of the two hottest prospects at Double-A, Leo De Vries, has a likely path to the majors this year if the Athletics‘ infield depth doesn’t prove to remain as strong as it’s been to start the season. De Vries has put up a .340/.414/.480 slash line through his first 59 plate appearances, showing a little pop in his swing with a couple of homers and swiping four stolen bases.
For a 19-year-old playing in the Texas League, where the average pitcher and hitter age is five years his senior, De Vries is showing he can handle his own quite well. But he won’t be in the majors in the next month. He still has yet to appear in Triple-A, and will need to show a few more weeks of performing at the level he is at now.
Still, De Vries is part of a superstar-caliber trio of prospect shortstops that could turn the course of their franchise’s future. So if De Vries is your guy between him, Konnor Griffin, and Jesús Made, now is as good a time to start his.
4. Jesús Made, SS – Milwaukee Brewers
2026 MiLB numbers
The 18-year-old phenom shortstop leading the Brewers farm system has finally made his first stash list of the season. Made is holding his own in the Southern League, putting up a .302/.413/.547 slash line with two home runs, nine RBI, six stolen bases, 1o walks, and 10 strikeouts.
Made won’t even be 19 until May 8, but it is unlikely the Brewers rush him up before then just so that they can have the first 18-year-old in the majors since Alex Fraudriguez in 1994. However, Made is performing much better than his infield battery mates in Triple-A Nashville, as Jett Williams has a .197/.338/.227 slash line in 80 plate appearances, and Cooper Prat, who is hitting .191/.309/.213 in 56 plate appearances.
If Made continues to outperform the competition at Double-A as he did in the lower levels of the minors, then there’s no question he will be in the majors this season. But if you’re high on having him stashed on your fantasy roster, then you might have to wait a while before that call-up happens.
5. Travis Bazzana, 2B – Cleveland Guardians
2026 MiLB numbers
The power still hasn’t shown up for Travis Bazzana this season, but he has climbed out of a bad hole this past week. After hitting .191 through his first 11 games, Bazanna has gone 11-for-27 over his last seven games, getting six doubles, three stolen bases, five walks, and six strikeouts.
The Guardians Opening Day infield is holding strong to start the year, which will keep Bazanna from being added to the 40-man roster any time soon. Bazanna will need to keep his current hot streak going and knock a few home runs to earn a call-up to the majors. But if you’re a believer that the power will be there soon, then now is the time to lock him in.
6. Bryce Eldridge, 1B – San Fransico Giants
2026 MiLB numbers
Slowly but surely, the power is coming back into Bryce Eldridge’s swing. Aside from hitting bombs at a lower frequency, Eldridge is performing at a level exactly as expected to start the season at Triple-A Sacramento.
Eldridge has a high average at .354, is drawing 11 walks, and has struck out 23 times, along with his two home runs and 11 RBI over 79 plate appearances.
For the most part, the Giants’ infield has remained healthy and productive to start the season, which has kept Eldridge at Triple-A for the time being. Given Eldridge’s poor 10-game performance to end the 2025 season with San Francisco, it makes sense that they are allowing more time for him to figure things out at the plate before bringing him back up. But that timeline may not carry out for much longer if Eldridge keeps hitting as he has been to open 2026.
7. Blaze Jordan, 3B/1B – St. Louis Cardinals
2026 MiLB numbers
The cool-off period has hit Blaze Jordan this past week, as he’s gone 4-for-19 in his past five games. But his slowdown is nothing to scoff at as he’s keeping the strikeout rate down and remaining patient at the plate.
Jordan has a lot weighing on his future, given his drop off in prospect status following the Cardinals’ trade for him from the Red Sox for Steven Matz. As long as he can keep up his early-season hot streak, Jordan can blaze his way into the Cardinals’ corner infield plans by the start of summer and bolster their future.
8. Emmanuel Rodriguez, OF – Minnesota Twins
2026 MiLB numbers
If there’s one thing that has made Emmanuel Rodriguez a top-100 prospect over the past three seasons, it’s his elite judgement of the strike zone. Right now, that excellent strike zone judgement is not showing up in early-season numbers, with 11 walks and 19 strikeouts over 63 plate appearances.
But a 15.9% walk rate being low for Rodriguez, even early in season, is a huge testament to his judgement of the strike zone, and what he could potentially do in the majors later this year. Rodriugez’s power has shown more this past week with a couple of home runs against the Lehigh Valley Ironpigs.
Rodriguez is the most likely of the Twins’ top three hitting prospects at Triple-A St. Paul to stick it out in the majors the longest once he gets the call-up the first time. But he has had many injury concerns over his career that make his durability questionable throughout the 2026 season. Still, unlike many other names on this list, Rodriguez is on his team’s 40-man roster, and as the Twins sort through the strengths and weaknesses on their roster, he will likely see his name called up to the majors before Memorial Day weekend this season.
9. Kaelen Culpepper, SS – Minnesota Twins
2026 MiLB numbers
The St. Paul Saints have had a tough week, as they nearly avoided a no-hitter in the ninth inning of their game against the Toledo Mud Hens on Tuesday. While the team has been on a 2-8 slump since their series sweep of Indianapolis to start the year, Kaelen Culpepper has remained a consistent bat in their lineup over that time.
Culpepper had a two-home-run day last Sunday in each game of a doubleheader against the Worcester Woo Sox, and has continued to swing the bat well and have patient at-bats against the opposition. The Twins’ infield depth has already dealt with injuries early this year, as third baseman Royce Lewis went down with a left knee sprain in Thursday’s game against the Tigers. Instead of calling up their top infield prospect, the Twins opted to call up veteran Ryan Kreidler instead.
That isn’t a disservice to Culpepper’s talent or a disbelief in it, but the 23-year-old shortstop has only played 12 career games at Triple-A, and there’s no need for the Twins to rush him up to the majors before he’s had enough at-bats with the Saints to prove he’s ready. And if Culpepper can have a longer runway to work on those things in Triple-A, he believes it will be a great boost to his confidence and overall game before he’s called up to the Majors.
“I’m just trying to be clean on defense, trying to be aggressive on the base paths, still swing at good pitches, have better at-bats, just all those things,” he said last Sunday. [It’s] Gonna help me be in the right direction, so I just need to keep doing those things.”
10. Ryan Waldschmidt, OF – Arizona Diamondbacks
2026 MiLB numbers
The Diamondbacks roster continues to be hit with injuries, but they’re still taking their time to develop Ryan Waldschmidt at Triple-A instead of rushing him up to the majors. Waldschmidt continues to swing a hot bat in the PCL, putting up a .321/.433/.589 slash line with two home runs, and 12 RBI over 63 plate appearances. He’s still striking out often, with 18 on the year, but is beginning to draw a bit more walks each game, totaling 10 on the year.
While Jordan Lawlar is the first of the Diamondbacks’ injuries to land on the 60-day IL, if any other player lands on the IL for a 60-day stint, then the Diamondbacks may finally pull the trigger to call up Waldschmidt and add him to their 40-man roster to bolster their depth after a start of the season full of more injuries than they’d like to have.
On The Bubble
Here are the next five hitters considered for inclusion on this week’s list in no particular order.
Jasson Domínguez, OF – NYY
Spencer Jones, OF – NYY
James Tibbs III, OF – LAD
Colt Emerson, SS – SEA
Cooper Ingle, C – CLE